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The second inquiry of the book asks: how do I find that “still, small voice”? Have I heard God in the stillness of my soul? Have I been quiet enough to heed the message?

That small voice is the sacred compass, my connection to all that is. To seek its direction, I follow this practice. I quiet my mind. I become aware of my breath, aware of my life. The loud, distracting voice of my worry cries for my attention, and I acknowledge it. I let it be heard and then I let it be. It is the voice of my fear. For now, fear does not get my attention. It does not get my energy. For now I would like to attend to that smallest voice. The voice that is the thinnest whisper of wind. A voice that does not speak in words but speaks in Truth. Yes. I do believe I have heard. And I have listened.

But my quiet pockets of time are usually found just before bed when the day is done or just upon rising when the day is not yet begun. And my spaces of stillness are most often reserved spaces like meeting for worship and meditation. But what of the the times when I am fully in the midst of life? Times that are not still, nor quiet at all. How do I connect to my source then?

I have found a stillness in being mindful of the present. Even though the present is never still, I feel settled in the moment when I am fully present with it.

Being present is when I know myself and where I am within a moment. And I speak honestly from that space. Moments when I am not preoccupied with who I am becoming, but rather I am aware of who I am now. Moments when I do not bend my truth towards who I try to be, what I hope to be doing or even who I once was. I am not concerned with how I am perceived by others. Instead I am only in the moment. I am only in the moment. From that very particular stillness, I can hear the whisper. I speak words carried by the wind… frequently kind. And I act accordingly.

How do you connect to your Sacred Compass? How do you perceive its message?

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Every so often something comes up for me from my past lives. In fact, I actually work to bring this stuff up. Why would anybody do that, especially since some of it is horribly violent? I can answer that question with one word: karma.

In short, life works from the inside out. There’s a lot of stuff inside us that we can’t see, but it acts in a causal manner and generates our experiences: who we see, what we do, our reactions. Not trivial at all, and actually the best place to work if you want to change your life.

In my particular case, I found a movie about a frontiersman who had been mauled by a bear. That didn’t really register with me when I first got the movie, but it became obvious when the scene came up in the film.

The scene is quite horrific, and the frontiersman is left for dead by his comrades. This scene once again brought up a past life I had in Wyoming, in the late 1800′s. I think I had been a doctor, and moved there from the east coast. I somehow managed to survive the Civil War, and moved out to Wyoming with my wife. We had a ranch with some cattle and it was a nice place.

Well, apparently there was a grizzly bear in the area who also liked our cattle. I got tired of him killing them whenever he wanted, so one day I went out to hunt him down. I got about a mile out from our ranch, when my horse got spooked by a rattlesnake. He reared up and threw me off. I fell on the ground and broke my leg. Then the bear attacked me and slashed my throat. I managed to kill the bear first with my knife. I died soon after that.

Since I had told my wife where I was going, when I didn’t show up she rode out and saw what happened to me. I think that was the end of the Wild West for her. She went back east and that was the end of that.

This was an incredibly horrible experience for me to relive while I was watching this movie. However painful, I know I needed to go through it in order to move forward with my life. I also knew I’d probably have to see this movie a few times to clear it all for good.

I’ve been doing past life work for probably 24 years now. I keep hoping it will get easier, but it never does. It’s up to us to dredge up our past lives and work to release and heal them. It’s the only way I know (except for doing affirmations) to change your life.

There seems to be a possibility of a move for me and my girlfriend towards the end of this year, to a nicer place (hopefully.) I am hoping I can do enough inner work to bring this about. The bear attack for me was a huge experience, so it’s good to work on letting it go.

The good thing about all this is that once these experiences have been released, they should not bother you again. If you truly let go of the karma, it is basically non-functional. Try saying that five times fast!

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When I first started blogging, I asked an author for permission to write about my experience as I read his book, The Sacred Compass. I wanted to start to write about Spirit and this gave me the bones to build upon both in the reading and processing.

As I did it, I found myself getting good at listening to my inner spirit. But lately I’ve hit a spiritual recession of sorts. Mission drifting from my soul work. And my fears and anxieties have mastered the art of mimicking my voice. So I believe it is time to go back and relearn. This is how I started:

I spoke with a spiritual counselor as I felt I needed some unbiased guidance. If you read my blog you know I’m constantly seeking, writing my way to figuring out who I’m supposed to be in this world. After the session, I began to see the issue was less about who I want to be and more about being who I am. With this realization came another . . . I realized I need to deepen my spiritual practice. My roots were shallow – my soil had eroded. I have been stuck in a spiritual kiddie pool. I can splash and cool off and there is happiness there. But there is no diving allowed. And I want to dive.

I sat with this for a while before really knowing what I needed. For the longest time I mistook watering down my core values for being open minded. Somehow I thought having a strong belief was like drawing a line in the earth; it created a place of division. This was especially true of religion. I saw religion as a great contributor to the “Ism Schism”. But here’s the kicker . . . my faith is strong.

To get around that internal conflict, I just claimed to be “spiritual”. It seemed nice, New Age-y, open, non-confrontational. But it left me spiritually homeless. I didn’t have a real practice; I didn’t have the boundaries to work within. I was open to anything. And actually I still am. BUT I know now that I need to claim a space to drop my roots. I understand now that the line in the earth I mentioned earlier, the one I thought identifying my spirituality created, it only happens if choose to pick up a stick and draw it. If I remain rootless, the slightest breeze can carry me away. I can be grounded and open. I can be deeply rooted in my faith and still sway with the wind.

So when I made the conscious decision that this is where I needed to start, I contacted my new Friend Emma again to ask if she could recommend a few books. One of the books she recommended was The Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment by J. Brent Bill. What better title when looking for some direction? From the back cover: “As you use this book to chart your own spiritual course, you will find yourself led to unexpected places . . . “ So here I go yo! I’m climbing out of the shallow end. I’m a fish out of water eyeballing that deep end. With Brent’s kind permission (thank you Brent!), I’ll be posting all about it as I move through the lessons. They all will start with the title: Soul Searching for anyone interested in following along. For me, it will be decidedly Quaker in flavor but I will strive to present it in a form palatable to any without watering it down to bland mush. And so the adventure begins. With that, I dive in….

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I’ve only recently come to think of myself as a feminist. For the longest time, I tried to separate myself from my femininity. I felt it was being a girl that made me weak. As I said in previous posts, even the Bible seemed to tell me so. I tried to work on my masculine traits to make me stronger. I tried to be one of the guys.

When I became a mother, things shifted for me. Maybe holding space within my body for another human made me appreciate the strength of the feminine. Having to be soft and allow the process take over my life taught me the strength of acceptance. Acceptance is feminine.

I do believe we are a in time where we are seeing the effects of not allowing softness, not in our men and not in our women. Repressing this natural expression has created a culture of intolerance and inequality. And within the feminist movement itself, the intolerance and inequality is present.

As I am growing into my femininity, I am finding new levels. Levels where I am the one holding privilege because of my race. It was a hard pill to swallow after working on getting right with me as a woman only to find a new level of wrong I’ve been a part of. But it is true. I have been both denied and granted access to paths of success and privilege solely based on my appearance.

In my spirituality, I have been guilty of saying we are all one. And on a certain level I know this to be true. When we get above ego, we are part of a collective soul. I believe that. But we do not live in a world that supports this. And until we do, saying we are all “one” and “I don’t see anyone as different”, denies the experience of anyone who has not been given the same freedoms and undermines the voices of those oppressed by the systems in place.

Being this is a spiritual community, I feel compelled to speak on this both as a way of inviting the dialogue on feminism and also white privilege in the context of spirituality. I invite the conversation, including being called out on any of my posts. This may be an uncomfortable topic for some. But I’m realizing, especially as our faith communities are more and more often being used to justify things that are immoral, that it is necessary. It isn’t new. This is very old. And in the beginning I felt a little triggered by this. But I sat with what made me uncomfortable and started the process of unpacking it all. It feels bad when you realize your part in a system of oppression, regardless of intention or personal experience. But I feel I disempower myself when I am not honest about the ways I’ve been wrong in my thinking. I disrespect my faith when I use it to shield me under the universal umbrella or use it to bypass the reality of the world we live in. And so I keep at this work because I need to.

This is how I feel about this work. It is personal and deep work. And if I truly want to help get to a place of “oneness”, I have to recognize why we aren’t one. Again, the divides aren’t new. But they are constantly being exploited in new ways. And I am waking up to it. And having this space in a spiritual community I would feel remiss if I didn’t make room for this conversation. How does this show up in your spiritual circles? Please feel free to share here.

This is how I feel about this work. It is personal and deep work. And if I truly want to help get to a place of “oneness”, I have to recognize why we aren’t one. Again, the divides aren’t new. But they are constantly being exploited in new ways. And I am waking up to it. And having this space in a spiritual community I would feel remiss if I didn’t make room for this conversation. How does this show up in your spiritual circles? Please feel free to share here.

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I’m an intuitive for animals as well as people as I channel beings who are alive and passed on to the heavenly realm which is also earthbound spirits such as a pet by your side, that you thought you lost but are there. I predict in readings the reincarnation time and breed for pets and markings so you’ll know who they are to bring them home when their reborn. I am like a Dr. Doolittle, I channel what animals are saying by their breathing and I get psychic information by their barks and I listen to doves talking to me. As a child I used to lay in bed listening to bed listening to Doves and what they were saying. I also had a cat and we had a strong intuition esp bond as cats are psychic and she would wait for me four blocks away from our house on a corner in the bushes at the time I walked home from school everyday and run along aside me. I have had these connections with many cats. Also I’ve had intuition connections with horses and do readings on them as well as house pets

I once named a cat “Samantha” that I brought home when I saw her at the animal shelter. It was a sudden impulse I had, I called her “Sam”. She dissapeared several months later. I posted flyers on my street and a woman called me who said “I have your cat but she’s my cat”. The woman told me I live on your street, two buildings down. I ran over there and the cat was with her and she said the cat’s name was “Samantha” and she called her “Sam” and she lost her two years ago. So I helped the cat find her way home. I do missing pet readings for owners. I read animals who are lost by looking at their photo,they tell me “I’m Gone” or “I’m not gone”.

I am a vegetarian due to my love for animals and psychic connection to their spirits full of unconditional love.

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